James 1:3
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience,
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7That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
7That the triall of your faith, being much more precious then of golde that perisheth, though it bee tryed with fire, might be found vnto praise, and honor, and glory, at the appearing of Iesus Christ:
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1WHEREFORE seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
1¶ Wherefore, seeing wee also are compassed about with so great a cloude of witnesses, let vs lay aside euery weight, & the sinne which doth so easily beset vs, and let vs runne with patience vnto the race that is set before vs,
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James 1:3
Sense 1: Perceiving, understanding, recognizing, or being acquainted with. Sense 2: Having knowledge or skill.
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Testing or proving by trial.
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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.
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Sense 1: The substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen; trust, confidence, belief, persuasion, or reliance. Sense 2: Faithfulness, fidelity, or trustworthiness. Sense 3: The revealed truth or gospel believed and kept.
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Third-person singular present form of work, meaning to labour, act, operate, perform, make, produce, accomplish, or bring about.
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1:2My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
1:2My brethren, count it all ioy when ye fall into diuers temptations,
1:3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
1:3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience,
Selected passage1:4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
1:4But let patience haue her perfect worke, that ye may be perfect, and entier, wanting nothing.
1:5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
1:5If any of you lacke wisedome, let him aske of God, that giueth to all men liberally, and vpbraideth not: and it shalbe giuen him.
1:6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
1:6But let him aske in faith, nothing wauering: for he that wauereth is like a waue of the sea, driuen with the wind, and tossed.
1:7For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
1:7For let not that man thinke that he shall receiue any thing of the Lord.
1:8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
1:8A double minded man is vnstable in all his wayes.
1:9Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
1:9Let the brother of low degree, ‖reioyce in that he is exalted:
1:10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
1:10But the rich, in that hee is made low: because as the floure of the grasse he shall passe away.
1:11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
1:11For the Sunne is no sooner risen with a burning heate, but it withereth the grasse; and the flowre thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his wayes.
1:12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
1:12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when hee is tried, hee shall receiue the crowne of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that loue him.